Thread: What's in your first aid kit?

So while I waited for my FAL I decided to sit a first aid course to brush up. Had been several years since the last...
Anyways I take my first aid kit out with me, and it's one I had set up for trail riding and dirt biking, but thinking I should probably set one up specifically for hunting.
What is in your first aid kit that ISN'T included in a basic kit from the store?

Duct tape

The question should be what isn't in your first aid kit that is in a basic kit for the store? Reason? You have to carry it. That said, some people like to add Celox and tourniquets.

Nowadays - a PLB

Originally Posted by Oscar

Nowadays - a PLB

Yep, that's important

TQ, Israeli bandage, wound packing gauze, standard bandage for wrapping/strapping, pain relief (have some left over Tramadol). Medical/strapping tape (good for strapping ankles or covering blisters). Odds and ends like band aids and antihistamines.

I'd be super cautious of really strong pain relief like Tramadol in a bush type situation - in the wrong situation it could be very incapacitating or increase your risk of hypothermia etc.

Whatever you elect to carry in your first aid kit - you need to 1) be able to get to the kit, and easily get into it (have seen people that wrap their kits in armour plating so it doesn't get wet etc but no thought in how to get to it worst case one handed etc) and 2) when you do get into it do you know what's in each package?

The flash Israeli style bandages and fancy clot-promoting penetrating wound fillers are super effective and really good, but if you buy one consider buying two so you can open one up and practice and get familiar with it and leave it open to show others...

Glad wrap for burns. About 3 meters folded into a zip lock baggie. Camp cooking can be dangerous with wobbly little burners and pots with no handles...

chech out one of the numerous other threads on this one....
a couple of panadol a couple of antihistimine and a roll of insulation tape.

yes there was lots on a previous thread seemed many carry way to much

Jumpin on this thread to ask. For medications/pills etc - how do y'all carry them ? I have pill sheets in my med bag (panadol, water purification tablets, hayfever, ibuprofen etc etc) but I've found after several trips and being squeezed in my pack the foil gets ripped or damaged making the pills either loose or useless.

Cheers

Originally Posted by HarryMax

Jumpin on this thread to ask. For medications/pills etc - how do y'all carry them ? I have pill sheets in my med bag (panadol, water purification tablets, hayfever, ibuprofen etc etc) but I've found after several trips and being squeezed in my pack the foil gets ripped or damaged making the pills either loose or useless.

Cheers

I have 3-4 small baggies with a couple different pills in each. Codine, anti histamine etc. I keep the few baggies in a small pill container.
If you take the meds out of their packaging you should definitely label them.

Abdo pad/gauze/israeli bandage/TQ
Strapping tape
SAM splint
Triangle bandages
Antihistamines
Paracetamol
Ibuprofen
PLB

Found this to be basic but will stop a serious bleed and splint a broken bone.
Let's be honest, either you're walking out or you're not. No point lugging around a hospital.

Day trip:
- Aquatabs
- Paracetamol
- Celecoxib
- Codeine
- Aspirin
- Elastoplast
- Dermabond
- Emergency blanket
- Compass (spare)
- Torch/battery
- PLB

Overnight trip:
- As above
- Dextrose tablets
- Celox
- Gauze
- Betadine
- Medical tape
- Matches/firelighter/tinder

Aspirin is for suspected heart attack.

Originally Posted by HarryMax

Jumpin on this thread to ask. For medications/pills etc - how do y'all carry them ? I have pill sheets in my med bag (panadol, water purification tablets, hayfever, ibuprofen etc etc) but I've found after several trips and being squeezed in my pack the foil gets ripped or damaged making the pills either loose or useless.

Cheers

one small plastic pill container....about the size of your thumb